1 jltf J- ICfiL ' " ' " B. F. SCHWEIER, THE 00N8TITUTI0II-TH1 USIOH-ASD TH1 ISrOKCIMEIT Of TH1 LAW. I ' ' .' ' Editor and PropHatOlV VOL. XXX. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.. OCTOBER 5. 1876. NO. 40. i FA5TASY. BY MABT & WITKrSOTOX. If I awoke some mora. And down the stair descending all forlorn Of wonted faoea fonnd the world below No mother's smile, no kiss, no baby's crow. No sister taking op the thread, half span. Of last night's talk (some talks are never done): Outside the door If then I wended, seeking soft Lendre, Or welcome, stately sweet, of Lady Clare, Or staved my step at gracious Anna's stair. Or sought gay Liu for a tilt of words. Keen snd inspiriting sa tourney swords ; And here and there. For whisper of the wise, smile of the fair. For all gay courtesies, lightsome pleasantries. For the dark splendor of soms gorgeous eyes, For even thee, soul-comrade, if a bare. Blank, very vacancy should on me stare ; If then should speak Some right-authentic angel, "They yon seek All like a dream have vanished ; bnt a dream In truth they ever were ; they did bnt seem ; Phantarmas were they, figments, fantasies. Projections of thy own thought, only these," Ah me ! alas ! If all this gramarye should come to pass, I think I tbould believe him should believe ; Nor would his disenchantment deeply grieve. Nor greatly startle, nor bewilder me. Soul-comrade, save 'twere also told of thee! Scrttmer't Monthly. The Charm Doctor. BY A. GOCXD PENS. Doctor Harry Brooks, the latest ac ssion to the medical fraternity of Parkville, sat one morning in the dingy old office of Doctor Able, who had kindly taken him into a conditional partnership. An observer would have thought that Dr. Harry was very much absorbed in the large leather bound volume which lay in his lap, but such, in real ity, was not the fact. The old volume had been taken up with the laudable intention of study, but the young Doc tor's mind was running in a different channel, and his thoughts properly written out, would read something like this: "Here, I've been a partner of old Doctor Abie's about six months, and in all that time haven't had a case fit for a charm doctor to experiment upon. Teople will insist on asking for Doctor Able, and look at me with a fearful frown when I dare to offer my services. Wish I was old, gray-headed, married Ah ! yes, perhaps that would help me into practice. Married? Wonder if I could prevail upon sweet Kate Rich mond to bestow her hand and expecta tions on such as I ? I believe she loves me, and 1 know I love her. But that mother of Kate's ! Whew !" Rap rap bang! as if the door was about to be knocked in, and Doctor Harry's book rattled on the floor as he let down the front legs of his chair. "Come in!" he roared, somewhat in proportion to the strength of the knock. A bright looking Irish lad about six teen years of age appeared, grinning. "Good morning. Doctor Brooks." "Teddy Mileen. is that you, why did you not cave the door in at once ?' "Hadu't time, sure; am in a hurrah; where's the old mon ?' 'Gone to the country. What's up now. Is Mrs. Richmond worse?" "Worse is it? She'll be dead as a mackerel in just sixteen minutes an a half." "Well, Doctor Able will return in about one hour, and I will tell him he is wanted there." "Better sind the undertaker along wid him," answered Teddy as he banged the door after him and started up the street. Doctor Brooks knew that Mrs. Rich mond Kate's mother was not seri ously 111, ia fact that she was a hypo chondriac, and was only happy when the could find a new doctor. Bile bad been sent for in haste, on his first arrival in town, and thus began his acquaintance with Kate. But he had very incautiously asserted the real truth to the afflicted mother, and she had indignantly dismissed him, and forbidden Kate to speak to him again. However, there were many opportu nities of meeting Kate, unknown to the old lady, and such meetings had taken place until Harry had come to consider himself an accepted suitor, but poverty had prevented him from deciding the matter definitely. "Something must be done to kill time when there are no patients at hand for the same purpose," thought Dr. Brooks, "and why not play busi ness for want of the genuine article." Acting on this impulse, he rang for the stable boy, and ordered out his horse and buggy, for he was fortunate in the possession of those very neces sary adjuncts to his profession. When they arrived he took up his cases, and springing into the buggy, drove furi ously through the principal part of the town, as if a matter of life and death was at stake. Of course people stared and wondered who it could be in such need of a phy sician and duly canvassed the merits of the toudz Doctor. At last, having done the most im portant part of town, Harry struck out upon a pleasant country road, and once beyond range of the tillage, slackened his pace, and prepared to enjoy the bright surroundings. A little womanly figure appeared coming down the road and at a glance he knew it could be no other than the one uppermost in his mind Kate Rich mond. "Good morning, Miss Richmond," was his salctetlon, and it was returned cordially. "Taking rorning walk for your health?" hv5.:ed. "O, no sir. I have been out to Uncle John's : c . 1c iw he lives about a mile om town, often walk there on lit e erracds f: mamma." This wi! ai opportunity not to be lost, and Doctor Harry used his arts of persuasion so well that Kate consented to take a little ride, and so he helped her into the buggy and away they went. . What transpired on that eventful ride we cannot exactly state, but cer tain it is that those two came to some kind of an understanding during the hour they were exercising Harry's fine horse, and at her urgent request he al lowed her to alight where he had found ber, and they returned to town by dif ferent roads." "Katie!" called the petulent invalid. "Yes, Ma;" and Kate Richmond en tered the parlor where her mother sat bundled up in a comfortable rocker. "It is about time for me to take my medicine dear," she suggested. Kate bustl id around to prepare the usual dose of strengthing cordial re commended so highly "by old Doctor Able. "Mamma," she said hesitatingly. "Well, Kate, what is it? be careful or you will spill the medicine :" "There is a wonderful doctor coming to town, and I am sure he can cure you." "Oh dear, Katie, I shall never be well, I fear, these doctors do not know my trouble, this pain in my back, this suffocating this" "But, mamma," interrupted Kate, this new doctor, Professor Mohoc the great Indian charm doctor, as his ad vertisements say, can charm away dis ease of all kinds and performs wonder ful cures." "Well, it may be beneficial to try him," said the Invalid, as if grasping at the last straw of hope." "Shall I have him called, mamma?" "When, dear?" "To-morrow evening. He will ar rive in town this evening and remain a week or more." "As you like, Kate. O, this suffoca tion! my dear. Aunt Melinda was once cured of the ague by a charm. It may do me good. We will try it." A. smile of satisfaction illumined Kate's face as she re-arranged the wraps about her mother and tripped lightly out of the room. The summer twilight was deepening into night as a pompous, flasily dressed and rather portly man stepped up to the door of the Richmond place, and rang the bell. He had on the shiniest black hat, and swung a heavy, gold headed cane, and altogether assumed an air exceedingly professional. His faced was covered by a heavy black beard, and the tawny hue of his skin indicated foreign birth. It was the renowned Doctor Mohoc, the great Indian charm doctor, and be was soon admitted by Kate Richmond and ushered into the presence of the invalid. "Good efening," was his greeting, with a foreign accent, and laying aside hat and cane, he approached the in valid, wasting no time in useless talk. Taking her wrist between his thumb and fingers, he pulled out a handsome gold watch and timed her pulse. "Let me see tongue," imperatively. The invalid exhibited that important member. "Where pfiin here?" and roughly he dug his thumb into her side. "Oh ! dear me, doctor, you'll kill me ! screamed the invalid, fairly jumping under his rough inspection. "Madame," eyeing her pityingly. "You have called me just in time. Two weekend you have been dead." "O, mercy, Kate, do you hear that?" But Katie had left the room with her handkerchief to ber face, shaking con vulsively, but not with weeping we fear. Meantime Doctor Mohoc had pulled a mysterious looking box from his pocket, and taking out ten peculiar beans, was going over some monoto nous chant in a strange tongue, lifting each bean at arms length above his head, and returning it to the box. Kate had slipped into the room again and watched the proceedings. At last the Doctor spoke : "Here great charm, sure cure. Madame, you must take beans efery morning." "All at once?" with a lcok of horror she asked. "No swallow," he said. "Efery morning take beans, go out Into garden lay bean at foot of every tree and bush on place. Do so efery time lay bean," lifting both hands from his shoulder as high as he could reach, "den when beans all out, go back where you begin and take all up same way, understand? "O dear, it will kill me to do all that, sighed the invalid. "Must do it or die. Sure charm. No cure, no ask pay. 'But how often must I do this, doc tor?" "Every day at six o'clock in morning for two week." "I just know it will kill me! My poor back !" "This chair no good," asserted the doctor, "it kill you too. Must not use easy chair, always use hard chair; no arms no cushions. All spoil inarm. "But doctor, I can't do without this easy chair!" exclaimed the now horri fied woman. "Must; die sure If don't. Room too hot, open windows, doors; get out in sunshine then charm do good," and hastily gathering hat and cane, Doctor Mohoc departed abruptly. The poor woman seemed deprived of all strength at contemplating tne new regime laid down for her; but faith works wonders and It is saia mat every bodv has some superstition. Mrs. Rich' mond had belief in charms, and this alone caused her to try the strange pre- acrlDtion. It was hard at first, but after a few trials she improved, and frienas per suaded her that she was looking so much better, and their kind flattery helped her. In short, she continued her exercise under Kate's training, until she lound it much nicer to be out and stirring than moning in a warm room. Her views of life generally changed, and when at the proper time Kate ex- posed the fraud successfully practiced, her Indignation was suppressed, and full Dardon granted Doctor Harry Brooks, with the possession of Kate's hand, and she now consider him a wonderful, Chann-lng Doctor. The California Grangers expect to ship 600,000 tons of wheat to England this tali. Oar First "Cfclaa Bay.' Never shall we forget the first China man whom we employed as a house servant. The excellent and trusted Bridget who hod lived with us so long was to be married, and after her, we felt indeed, that "no Irish need apply." She remained beyond her time that we might fill her place, but each aspirant to the culinary domain seemed worse than the preceding, and finally we asked our Chinese laundry-man if he could send us "a China-boy," as they are cal led. Biddie protested. "Och ! I can't bear to thiuk of je's having a Chinaman! They will stale all there is in the house, and ye's wont know where it goes." But we made due allowance for Bid die's prejudices, engaged "a boy," and he came at the time appointed. A neat, rather handsome fellow, he was, and as he disappeared into his room, bundle in hand, we were con scious of a great drawing of the spirit toward him. In five minutes he emerged, clad in the daintiest of white blouses and aprons, his pigtail girded around his head as meaning business, and with the quietest step and mien he rough t us out in the parlor, and "came and stood before us:" his head slightly bowed, bis hands folded, perfectly si lent, awaiting orders. There was a submissiveness in his attitude, his expression, his whole aspect, which suggested the Old Testament and the "Arabian Nights" in turn. Our heart leaped up, as Wordsworth's to a rain bow. Here was a new regime, indeed ! How promising! How delightful. He went to work in a way which showed perfect acquaintance with his duties, and we mentally planned to teach him (was he not a heathen ?), to make much of him, and to keep him a long time. It was nice to have such a dutiitjuc-looking creature around, and how deftly he waited on door and table ! About the middle of the afternoon, another Chinaman appeared on the scene, and the two had much cackle to gether. No 1. showed No. 2 bis kitchen, laundry, and closet; and we concluded that he was pleased with his conveni ences, and was receiving congratula tions thereupon. By five o'clock he again ''came and stood before us." "My fliend heap-good boy; he stay you ; I catch-um place, San Flancisco." And China-boy No. 1. summarily de parted, leaving behind him quite an in ferior substitute. And with him went, as we learned tiiat evening, all the cracked-wheat which we chanced to have in the flour-closet. Scribner. rarioaa Sataral lister as. In the rough granite county back from Mossamesdes, on the West coast of Africa, are some very remarkable natural cisterns. The country itself is peculiar, huge single rocks rising out of the nearly level plain in some places and other hills of rocks, in several of which deposits of water are found at the very top. A recent traveler vis ited one of these, and describes it as a natural tank with narrow entrance, containing some 300 or 400 gallons of exquisitively clear and cool water. It was covered by vast slabs of granite, from which the rain drained into it during the rainy season, shading the water so that it could not be seen with out a torch, and so protecting it that the sun cannot evaporate it during the dry season. Thus a bountiful store of excellent water is preserved, while there was not a drop to be had else where for miles. A still more remark able cistern of this sort is that of the Pedra Grande or Big Stone, some thirty miles from Mossamesdes, a huge rounded mass of granite rising out of a sandy plain. On the smooth side of this rock, twenty or thirty feet above the plain, is a circular pit about ten feet deep and six feet across. 1 he rain fall on the rock above the pit drains into it, filling it completely every rainy season. The walls of the pit which is shaped like acrucible narrowing gently to the bottom are perfectly smooth and regular, the inclosing granite being of the closest and hardest description. The cistern will hold several thousand gallons of water. Near by are smaller pits of similar character. Their for mation is unexplained. The water of this strange well furnishes the natives and travellers with an abundant sup ply during the dry season, consequently it is a noted halting place. Wbat Is aa laarrala Carpet T The two-Dlv ingrain known to the trade Is a fabric comDOsed of two webs. or "piles" of cloth, made with differ ent colored yarns say one "ply" green, the other red of equal consistence or texture, united at the edges or selvages of each by the selvage threads, and In grained or united at different parts of the cloth, wherever called for by the de sign or pattern. If the red "ply" repre sents the ground color of the design, then the green will be the figure color; and whenever the green figuring "ply" annearsover the red ground "ply." that is ingraining. The more general this ingraining or mixing up oi tne two wens or "olies ." the better the fabric is ingrained, and the longer it will wear. The three-ply ingrain is maae ana in grained after the same manner. A two-ply carpel, woven on me same loom and "mounted" in the same man ner as a two-nlv ingrain, if woven plain, without any design or pattern, would be a seamless bag; a three-piy, unaer tne ammo mn ilitinn. a double bag. or two bags joined together by one side of each. The old Scotch two-ply Ingrain weighed about 24 ounces to the yard. The weft yarns were heavier than those now used, and tne warp tnreaus were three-cord worsted,-and much stronger and heavier than the two-cord now in general use. Two things are gained by h substitution of the two-cord warp for the three-cord, though the fabric is rendered less durable. One is the saving of worsted, the most expensive of the two materials which compose the fabric ; the other is that the warp being finer, if nrmita a wider scone in shading the weft colors. This wiU be understood even by the unskilled reader, if he will place an unequal number of coarse and fine black threads on two pieces of scar let or white cloth or paper of equal width. The finer the black threads are, the brighter the colors underneath will apar. Ingrain carpets are frequently called Scotch carpets, and by others Kidder minster. The difference in the nomen clature of this fabric, we presume, is due to the fact that, until 1821, Kidder minster had nearly a monopoly in mak ing ingrain. In the memorable strike of that year, which commenced in March and continued into August, it lost near ly all its Ingrain trade, which mostly fell into the hands of Scotch manufac turers. Textile Manufacturer. laMaeace af taa Fraaclaeaa Hsak a Art. To the Franciscan monks, who exer cised a popular influence on Italian lit erature before Dante, we must also give the glory of having, in the bassilica of Assist (dedicated to the founder), begun the first and most important change in Italian art, that of its emancipation from the conventionalities of Greek or Byxantine artists in church painting. Byzantine church painting had its day; excellent specimens of its merits are numerous all over Italy, more especially at Rome, Ravennaand Venice. But its types are no longer suited to an age whose appreciations of beauty increased with wealth, luxury and intercourse with other countries an age in fact, which marked the first manhood of the Italian people and the Italian mind, the Byzantine figures breathe vigor and simplicity, and sometimes a certain ma jesty of design ; but the disposition of the group is evtravagant; the details are incorrect, the outlines dry, and no knowledge of perspective is evinced. Profusion of gold everywhere, especial ly in the ground on which stand forth the figures of the Redeemer or of the Creator. On some crucifixes yon would see supposed mummies had been sus pended with feet disjointed, while wounds pour out large rivulets of greenish blood; black, stern madonne, with long, stiff fingers, round eyes, and rough child; in general long figures, vulgar heads, and want of expression are the characteristics of Byzantine art. It has Imagination without grace; rich ness, but no purity of design ; rigidity, but no power; talent but no genius, it is, in fact, a style of translation, which soon became one of decline, when, hav ing adopted certain immutable laws, art was reduced to mere mechanism, which any monk could copy and repro duce with little trouble or expense. It is in the bassilica of Assist that Guido de Siena and Giunta da Pisa emancipa ted themselves by degrees from their Greek masters. The golden ground we see first substituted by azure besprin kled with golden stars. The figures be come more animated, the expression more ideal, the dryness of the outline and grouping is softened,the Immobility of the attitudes give place to a natural disposition, in fact art makes the first steps in its new life. Guido de Siena and Giunta da Pisa are followed by Bonamico, Tarabuvi, Diotisalvl, and by that Ducclo who is placed by some above Cimabue and Giotto, who completed the revolution. Among the many paintings Inspired for the new style of art by the founder of the Franciscan order, every one who has been in Assist must have seen Giot to's fresco representing the wedding of St. Francis with Poverty, in her ragged clothes, with a slender form and thin face, but still preserving the features of a beautiful woman. A dog barks at her, two children throw stones at her and place thorns in her pa'.h, she, calm, happy, and radiant, stretches out her hand to St. Francis. hile Christ him self joins their hands, the Eternal Fath er, accompanied by angels, appears in the midst of clouds, as if heaven and the universe assisted at the happy wed ning. There is nothing here which has the slightest association with the Greek manner. All is new, and free from school conventionality. And if you read the hymn from Dante to St. Francis, and the songs of St- Francis himself, and of Jaccopone in praise of poverty, and then look at the fresco of Assisi, you will see in the Franciscan order the same course of inspiration, the same sign of popularity. Jficiiu't Jii' M'igozine. WSste Tint. Time lost can never be regained. After allowing yourself proper time for rest don't live a single hour of your life without doing exactly what is to be done in it and going straight through with It from beginning to end. n om. nlav. stud v. whatever it is. take hold of I J w w it at once and finish it up squarely ana cleanly ; then to the next tiling wltnout lettinv anv moments droD out between. - e - It is wonderful to see how many hours these prompt people make out or a day ; and it is as if thev picked up the mo ments that the twaddlers lost. And If you ever find yourself where you have so manv things Dressed upon you that you hardly know where to begin, let me tell you a secret, lake noiu oi tne very first one that comes to hand, and rnn will And the rest all fall into file. and follow after like a company of well-drilled soldiers, and tnougn wora mav ha hard to meet when it challenges you in a squad, it is easily vanquished If you can bring it into lite. The Parlataa nectar's Cade. Never ask alms from 1. A man that is coming from dinner; roast beef renders one selfish. 2. A gentleman who Is following a lady. 3. Men who are too fat; it annoys them to stop. 4. A lady who is alone and unoo- served. S. Gentlemen who are putting on their gloves. But always ask from 1. A man who is going to dinner; he sympathises with the empty stomach. 2. A lady who knows she it being followed. 3. People who are walking two by two; their amour propre makes them give. 4. Officers in full dress uniform. 5. Office-seekers going Into cabinet ministers' bureaux; they give in hopes that it will bring them uek.AppleUmU Journal. A Farvaalta Mistake. "Every one ha a lucky number," said the old gentleman. "Mine is 21. Twenty-nine might have been, would have been, an unluckv number for me. Yet I didn't know it; both were painted in black letters on a white oval. Twen ty-one, twenty-nine. Not much differ ence you see 21,29 very like Indeed ; and vet because I chose the number without a flourish and a loug leg I am here to day, and have had a long and happy life. 1 should have been the oc cupant of a suicide's grave ever so many years ago had I chose 29." "I really can't understand," said I, "Was it a lottery or a draft, a conscrip tion or what? Was it a game was it." "It was a number on a door," said the old gentleman. "Watt a minute; I'll tell you all about it :" 'I was very much In love. Every one is at some time of his life. At twenty-five I was desperate. Talk about Romeo! He was nothing compared with me. "I'm not ashamed of it. She was a worthy object. Not only because she was beautiful, but she was good and amiable, and such a singer ! She sang soprano in the church choir. And I've heard strangers whisper to each other, 'Is there really an angel up there?' when she sang her part alone, clear, and sweet and flute-like her voice was. I've never heard its equal. "Well, I loved her, and thought she liked me, but wasn't sure. I courted ber a good while, but she was as shy as any bird, and I couldn't satisfy myself as to her feelings. So I made np my mind to ask and know for certain. Some old poet says : 'He either fears his fste too much. Or bis deserts are small. Who fear to put it to tne touch. And win or lose it alL' "I agreed with him, and one even ing, as I walked home from a little par ty where we had met, with ber on my arm, I stopped under a great willow tree and took her hand in mine and said: 'Jessie, I love you better than my life will you marry me I' I waited for an answer. She gave none. " 'Jessie," I said, 'won't you speak tome?' " 'No oh dear no !' "I offered her my arm again, and took her home without another word, She did not speak either. She had told me before that she would start with the dawn on a visit to an aunt in New York ; but I did not even ay good bye at the door. I bowed; that was all. Then, when she was out of sight, and I stood alone in the village street, I felt desperate enough to kill myself. "What had I done to have such a cold refusal? Why should she scorn me so? 'Oh, dear, no.' I grew furious as I repeated the words. "Yet it stung me all the same. I tossed from side to side of my bed at night and thought that I could endure it no longer. But I would not pain or disgrace my respectable relatives by committing suicide in the place where they dwelt and were well-known and thought of ! I mould go to New York even then a very large city and, seeking some hotel, register an assumed name, and, retiring at night with a bottle of laudanum and a brace of pis tols, awake no more, and so be rid of my misery. I arranged my affairs to the best of my ability, and received an imaginary letter from a friend in New York, requesting my presence on a matter of business. I burdened myself with no unnecessary luggage. What did an 'unkuown suicide' want of an other coat and change of linen. "I kissed my mother and sister and startled my grandmother by an embrace and started upon wbat I mentaly called my last journey, with a determined spirit. "There was a certain hotel to which many of the people of our village were in the habtt of going. This I avoided. Another chosen at a hazard, seemed to be better. Tbither I walked determined to leave no trace of my destination to those who knew me no clue to my ln dentity to those who should find me dead. "I had no mark on my clothing, no card. paper, or letter with me. As I as cended the hotel steps I felt so to speak, like one going to his own funeral. "A grinning water bowed before me A pert clerk lifted up his head and stared. I was an ordinary traveler to them that was evident. "It was late in the evening The place wore an air of repose. Laughter and a faint clink of glasses in an inner room told of some conviviality. One old man read his newspaper before the fire. Nothing else was astir. "I asked for a room. The clerk nod ded. " 'Do you care what floor?' be asked. "I shook my head. "Number twenty-nine Is empty,' he said, and he tossed the key to the waiter whom I followed at once. "We reached the room by two flights of stairs. At the door the waiter paused. " 'Thought he taid twenty-nine,' he muttered. 'The key is twenty-one.' " 'Then open twenty-one with it,' I said. 'I don't care for the number of the room.' " 'No, sir to be sure, sir,' said the waiter, and passed along a few steps further. " 'Twenty-one,' he said, and unlock ing the door he pushed it open. " 'Shall I bring you anything sir,' he said. "I answered 'No,' and he left me, having put a candle on my bureau. "The hour had come. As I shut the door a heavy sigh escaped me. Ala ! that life had become so woeful a thing to me that I should desire to become rid of it. "In the dim light of my own candle I paced the floor, and thought bitterly of the girl I loved so dearly. "It was in the days of curtained beds, The bed in this room was hung with dark chintz; so wen the window. Over the bureau hung a looking glass, with a portrait of a lady in puffed sleeves and high comb, at the top, by way of ornament. There were four stuffed chairs, and a brass shovel and tongs stood guard over the grate. fancied myself lying dead amidst all these belongings, and felt sorry for my self. Then I took my pistols from my portmanteau, and leaving the door un locked, for why should I trouble the landlord with breaking it open, I lay on the bed, drew the curtains, took a pistol in each band, and, as true as I speak to you now, bad the muzzle of each pressed to a temple, when some one opened the door, and There now Jessie,' said a voice, 'I told you you did not lock H.' " I did,' said another voice, 'and sent the key to the office by the cham bermaid.' "I laid the pistols down and peeped through the curtains. There were two ladies in the room. One an old lady in a brown front of false curls, the other my cruel lady-love, Jessie Grey. For a moment I fancied I must be dreaming. " 'Sure, it's the right number,' asked Jessie. " 'Twenty-one yes,' said the other. And here's my band-box. Oh, dear! I'm sleepy." " 'I am not,' said Jessie, I wish I was, aunt.' " 'You didn't sleep a wink last night,' said the aunt, 'Nor you haven't eaten your meals to day. You'll go Into a de cline if you go on that way. I'll see Dr. Black about you to marrow.' " I don't want Dr. Black to be called,' sighed Jessie, 'I'd rather die.' " 'What's the matter?' cried the old lady. 'You are not yourself, you don't eat or sleep, and cry perpetually. What ails you?' " 'I'm miserable,' said Jessie. " 'Oh, aunt,' said Jessie its all your fault. You told me over and over again that a girl must not jump at an offer; that a man must be refused at least once, or he'd not value a girl. And, oh he liked me!. And when he asked me I felt so glad ! But I remembered what you had said, and oh, how could I do it? I said "Oh, dear, no!" and he left me without another word. And I'm so sorry ! oh, so sorry ! because I loved him, aunt.' '"You little goose!' cried the old lady. "As for me, you can fancy how I felt. I had no thought of suicide now. My desire was to live and ask that quest ion of mine over again. I pocketed my pistols and crept down on the oth er side of the bed. I stepped toward the bureau, and blew out the candle. As I dashed out at the door, I heard two female screams, but I escaped in safety. "I met the waiter on the stairs. " 'Found out the mistake, sir,' he satd. 'Just coming to rectify it.' 'Don't mention it,' I said. 'I'm very gla J that is, it don't matter. Here is something for your trouble." And I gave him a five dollar bill. "He said 'thank you,' but I saw that be thought me crazy. He was confirmed In his opinion, when I passed the door of my room, I cried : " 'Heaven bless, twenty-one ! It's a lucky number!' "But I never was saner than I was then, and never half so happy. "Of course I proposed to Jessie the very next day, and I need not tell you that her answer was not, Oh dear no;' and that's why I call twenty-one my lucky number." Sa Tlawe far Aajtalaa-. The great difficulty in this country is, that we have no time for anything. The very walk of an American shows that he is in a hurry. An Englishman buttons his coat and gloves, and goes to business as deliberately as he goes to church. An American business man flies after the car, struggling with his coat sleeves as he runs, plunges in head-foremost, and plunges out at the end without regard to his neck. Chief amongst our acci dents stand those which occur because people jump upon flying trains or depar ting boats. To wait ten minutes is some thing not to be thought of. Dinner is not eaten: it is swallowed whole; and when one comes to the dessert he finds that the fruit was picked before It was ripe. Everything is hurried through, from the building of a house to the cur ing of a ham. The women who work on sewing machines stop before they come to the end of a seam. The dress maker sends home your dress with bast ing threads In it, and no loops to hang it up by. There is none of the slow, sure completeness of the world about anything, and even fortunes are made in a hurry, and lost in the same way. If any man we know is getting rich by the slow and patient process of saving. be sure that he was not born upon this continent. Yet people live as long here as they do anywhere else, and the days are the same length. Why is that we have no time for anything? Aa Esfllibawst Traakle With Ea Mst Jaaldeaa. Another young Englishman, who has been here about a fortnight, has an nounced bis conviction that it is his fate to marry an American girl, and tells thrilling stories of the trials and tribulations through which a man must pass in England before he can propose to the lady of his choice, and of the perils he incurs of having his Intentions asked and an exhibit of his bank ac count by the stern parent of a girl to whom he has shown some slight atten tions, or at whose guardian's house he has called several times. He complains bitterly that a man in England has no oppprtunity at all of cultivating the ac quaintance of a lady to find out whether he will like her or not, as he cannot see her except In public, or when her chape- rone is with her, and that should he dare to call on an unmarried lady and send his card up to her, he would be considered as having to a cer tain extent compromised her. On ac count of the circumlocution necessary before a man dare propose for a lady's hand, he says many Englishmen contin ue bachelors, and many English woman of wealth and rank remain unmarried As regards the last, approach with ma trimonial Intentions U especially dim cult, slnee a man who loves an English girl with a fortune is liable to be Insul ted by her paps when he asks for her hand, accused of desiring her money only, and asked point blank what equi valent he proposes to give. CESTEWWIIL, MOTE. Much of the fine silverware at the Centennial Exhibition has been bought ror wedding presents. A fair mathematician has estimated that the fog-horn is the direct cause of more proranity inone day than a regi ment of parsons could eradicate in a cy cle of the moon. The automatic evelope machine, in the Main Hall, always has a crowd around it. It makes out of a sheet of buff paper, that unwinds from an end less reel, 145 envolopes a minute. The paper is cut, shaped, folded, pasted, fas tened gummed, and the gum dried, all by machinery which finally delvers the envelopes all done up in neat pack ages. One girl tends the machines. Refrigerators become interesting when, as in the case of a big glass one shown In Agricultural Hall, the tem perature is kept down to 18 ueg., even in the fearful 100 deg. weather of this centennial summer. Fish, and other provisions that have hung inside since 1873 have gradually dried up. The air inside is so dry that a block of ice, standing on end, has left no drop of water on the floor where it stands, even in months of uneqaled heat. In the Russian department there is a case always pleasing to visitors which contains various military uniforms and accoutrements. Dressed figures are here shown, together with separate articles of military apparel, and small portma- teaus for omcers baggage. Adjoining are cases containing a great variety of weapons nrearms, swords, etc. An effort has evidently been made here to give a thorough idea of Russian profici ency In these directions, samples of everything most notable in the products of the empire in this line being shown. One odd little invention, exhibited in Agricultural Hall, is a machine for paring potatoes. It really does the work, too, and does it very neatlv and rapidly. It is the invention otJ.U. heagraves, Worcester, Mass. works on a principle similar to that of the "apple-parer," but more curious in its ingenious arrange ment. The exhibitor has been illustra ting it. all summer, to gaping crowds, but begins to find that doesn't "pay" to buy potatoes at $1 a bushel and use up two bushels a day merely to gratify idle crowds. But what a blessing that little machine would be to boarding-house keepers! They could run their hash mills cheap, with that. Among the curious Spanish exhib its at the Centennial are the Esparto and Gunco grasses. The latter species Is found only on the .Mediterranean coast In Andalusia, not a spear growing anywhere else. Its great length, among other peculiarities, makes it excellent material for weaving, mattings, baskets, Jce. It is also used for a variety of other articles, toilet covers.cigar cases, match safes. The floor malting made of this grass in Spain is sent to all the warm countries of the world, particularly to South America. A great variety of ar ticles made of this grass by prisoners in oue of the Spanish penitentiaries is on exhibition in the Centennial Main Building. The special correspondent of the London Time says it would be difficult to find an apter illustration of the big way in which the Americans do things than that furnished by the Centennial newspaper building, iu the exhibition grounds. Here we may any one, or, if you like, all of the 8.12U newspapers published regularly in the United States, and see theiu one and all for nothing. You are not only permitted as a favor to see them, bnt invited, nay, pressed, to confer the favor of entering tha build ing and calling for what paper you like. It is about as cool ana agreeaoie a place quite apart from iu literary attrac tions as a vi-itor to the exhibition could wish to be offered a chair in. Tlio nrinrine-nresses fthe American specimens) are marvels of compactness; and their speed is wonderful. The Lon don Timet' i "Walter" press is also ex hibited, in operation, like all the rest, but it is not so compact and simple as the New York machine. The Herald, . . r . i l -1 . 1..I .. I . Sun, anu some oi tne x iiuaueipms pa pers the have Hoe presses at work. The whole process is shown, from type-setting to stereotyping, and then the curv l,iiv motul rim fti-rpweil to its rjlace on the huge central cylinder, the press is started, ami away it goes, primni u-n and twelve thousand copies an hour. The Philadelphia Time has a new Idea in printing presses one of Hue's very latest a larger and longer and less sim ple machine, but a mucn faster one than mnv .tpf nrniliiml. It snrinkles. cuts and prints the sheet, all flora the end less roll already in use on oiner mouern machines, but it turns out zu.uw copies an hour. Tn the wine exhibition Snaln ex hibits an immense collection of choice wines In casks and bottles. Among the most attractive lots, in the endless ar ray of bottles was the old sherry oi Gonzalez Byass & Co., the Jerez de la Frontera No. 5, and Soleras of the vin tage of 1820. Speaking of wines, there la another temnle or di'Dartment. occu pied by a California wine-maker, who says he gathered o,uuu,uw icigut mil lion) bushels of grapes, last year, and sent two-thirds of the wine to Europe ! It is a fact that Europeans are getting an idea or the excellence oi tne vamornia -ina WMIawff were talking with the exhibitor, a couple of Englishmen took their leave, after having just given an order for two casks to be sent to the next steamer for Liverpool. These gen tlemen were emnoisteur$, who had long been familiar with the wines or ranee and Italy, and the Grecian archipelago, .n.i Ik., nroferrnl this (,'alifornia "Riesling" for a common, good table wine. This particular vineyara prouu- .hi. ... .hAiit m.nuo.uoo gallons. equally divided between dry and sweet. Those colored residents of Raleigh i.a tnlLincr nf an excursion to the Centennial have about given up the sub ject. The idea originate! wim a gray- k. hi.i Hnni- ii" w in inn l rxiwl-l ill live another hundred years, and who, it turned out, had a private axe to grind. He planned the excursion on the co-op erative principle. 10 a cruwu o u friends he explained : "I recken de expenses at 130. Fiftv r mill throw in tl each, an' I will n itnan hnr When f fit back we will throw in another dollar aroun', and de next man kin go, an- we u aeep u sys tem goin' till de whole caboodle hez KauTi ilitarn f li o r "Uncle Ike, how long does you expect to te gone? "rtnlv two weeks." he renlied : "each An. will h. irnn. iuat two weeks." "iraar s nityoi US an' eacn one u iwa wulii whil nftrt nf fie show 11 1 11. vr u, " - - y will de last man see?" was the blunt ouerv. Uncle Ike tried to convince them that dates and figures were made for mere convenience sake, but the crowd thinned out so rapidly that he was soon left alone, n hen ut had seen tne last man turn the corner he sighed a sad sigh and muttered : "I guess IU have to go- widou't-dat razor for another year. Dese here nig gers seem like dey hadn't any genius, Raleigh Sentinel. IXWS IS BRUT. Eight Spanish soldiers in Cuba die of fever where one ia killed. Six thousand persons in Atlanta, Ga., want work and cannot find it. - Randolph county, North Carolina, has five cotton factories in active oper ation. Forty-one cities of the United States have an aggregate debt of almost $600,000,000. There are 41 Roman Catholic churches In Brooklyn, against 6 in 1830 and 13 in 1SC0. The Pennsylvania railroad ia now doing a heavier passenger . business than it did in active war times. The widow of Daniel Webster is still living, at the age of eighty-five, with a relative near New York city. At a sham battle in Rome, N.Y., the other day, the veterans fired off 8,000 cartridges and 12,000 glasses of lager. Dio Lewis is nowhere. Syracuse boasts a female vegetarian who break fasts on peanuts aud lunches on horse radish. A set of car wheels that have run 323,000 miles have been taken oil a car owned by the Boston and Albany Rail road Company. Mankota, Minn, enjoys the proud distinction ot being the only town of its size in the northwest which has not a base-ball club. Fifteen million nine hundred thou sand hectolitres of barley (420,046,200 gallons) are consumed annually in Ger many for beer brewing. The value of the real and personal property of North Carolina In 1873 gained over twelve million and a half dollars on the valuation of 1874. A Taunton (Mass.) dog recently found his way back home on foot front New Hampshire, a distance of two hun dred miles. - Perkins the English pedestrian, has succeeded in walking eight miles within an hour less than eight min utes per mile. Stokes will get out of prison on the 23d of October. That would be about the time his moustache would have grown again, too, only they wont let it grow. The Knoxville Whig figures it up that the clergy cost the United States $12,000,000 annually, the criminals $40 000,000; the law vers, $70,000,000; and rum, $200,000,000. Mr. Rice, who is now canvassing in Williamstown,Mass., in I'M families in Williamstown village found 29 des titute of the Bible, and 2 families chose to remain so. The legacies received by Congre gationalist churches in Connecticut for the last six years amount, according to report, to more than three quarters of a million of dollars. The White House at Washington, D. C, was commenced in October 17D2. James Uoban was the architect. The building is modeled after the palace of the Duke of Leinster. Mrs. Breckinridge, widow of the widely-known Rev. Dr. Breckinridge, is erecting, at her own expense, a Pres byterian church upon the family estate in Madison county, Ky. A naval auction extraordinary is soon to be held off the Irish coast. I he sunken ironclad Vanguard, the tops of whose masts only are visible, will be sold to the highest bidder. ' The Ladies' Committee of Boston have otlered the owners of the Old South Church $400,000 for the land on which the meeting house stands, and this will probably be accepted. Surveys in the Adlrondacks have determined that three of the peaks ex ceed 5,000 feet In altitude Tahawas, or Marcy is 5,400, Mclntyre 5.200, and Haystack barely above the o.ouu mark. The finest chandelier ever made for a theatre in this country is that manu factured for the Boston 'theater. It U said to have cost $5,000, and is guaran teed to be the admiration of all behold ers. Some statistics reckon that there are on the earth two hundred thousand steam engines, with an aggregate of twelve nii'.lion horse power, or an equivalent of the strength of one hun dred million men. The bridle path from the Crawford house to the summit of Mount Wash ington, which has not been iu use for six years, has been repaired and re opened. It is much the pleasantest way of making the ascent. The Bessemer anti - seasickness steamer, built for service between Dover and Calais, having provea a mi ll re, has been sold, and will be split up for old iron. She cost nearly a million dollars, and was sold for 30,000. The Erie Railway Company has recently effected a sale of a large stock of old iron, wrought and cast, gathered up at the various stations and along the road. The sale realized over $100,- 000 to the treasury of the company. C. S. Haseltine. of Stevens Point. Wis., has a cranberry marsh of 840 acres under cultivation. If the berries are not destroyed by early fro9t he ex pects to gather 3.0IK) barrels, wnicn will be shipped direct to Liverpool. A daughter of a man who stood by Gen. Warren's side when he fell, now lives in Boston Highlands, at the ma ture age of 1"3. Her name is Harriet Hawlev. She never attended a theatri cal representation, and never journeyed in the cars. Twentv vears ago Indiana did not own a school house, and now there are 10,000 school buildings In the state, on which has been expended more than $10,000,000. There are 13,000 teachers in the state. Last year more than $3, 000,000 was paid to teachers. The Montana men In the Black Hills have voted down a proposition to organize a government for Deadwood City, and have passed resolutions de claring hanging the penalty for wrong doing, and Judge Lynch the court be fore whom all bad characters shall be brought. The love of liberty, which is con sidered an American characteristic, finds full expression in the nomencla ture of our towns. Missouri has twenty one towns named Liberty, Ohio twenty four, Indiana eighteen, Iowa sixteen and Arkansas seven. This Is very pa triotic, but it bothers the postmasters. The yearly mortality of the globe Is 42,403,000 persons. This is at the rate of 115,200 per day, 4,800 per hour, and eighty per minute. Among 10,000 per sons one arrives at the age of one hun dred; one In five hundred attains the age of eighty; one in one hundred to the age of seventy. In one hundred persous, ninety-five marry. A man has just died in Plain field, Me., whose principal Internal organs were found to be in a reversed position the heart on the right side and the liver on the left. He was a man of immense physical development, and with the strength of five ordinary men. His health was unexceptionally good until near the close of hU life, and he finally died of disease of the heart.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers